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Sweeting tosses 1-hitter for Kirkwood

Thu - 03 Apr Written by Metro Sports Report

David Sweeting pitched a one-hit shutout Thursday as the Kirkwood Community College Eagles blanked Marshalltown, 1-0, in the first game of a non-conference doubleheader at Kirkwood's Cedar Rapids campus.

Marshalltown won the second game, 5-0.

Sweeting, a sophomore from the Bahamas, struck out five batters and did not walk anyone in his third straight victory for the Eagles (11-7).

The first game was scoreless heading into the bottom of the seventh and last inning. Shawn Hagarty reached first base on an error, was bunted to second base and scored on an RBI single to right field by Matt Paciello.

Keaton Blackford took the loss in the second game for Kirkwood. He was reached for five runs (three earned) in six innings. The Eagles got only four hits in the game.

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Last Updated on Thursday, 03 April 2014 19:58

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Eagles suffer bad weekend in Boone

Sun - 30 Mar Written by Metro Sports Report

BOONE - The Kirkwood baseball team spent a weekend in Boone they would like to quickly forget.

The 19th-ranked Eagles were swept by DMACC in a league doubleheader for the second straight on Sunday, 12-4 and 9-6.

Kirkwood was outscored, 42-13, in the four-game series, dropping its records to 10-6 overall and 0-4 in the conference.

Will Ross was the starting pitcher for Kirkwood in the first game Sunday. He was touched for 13 hits and nine earned runs in six innings.

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No. 19 Eagles drubbed by DMACC

Sat - 29 Mar Written by Metro Sports Report

BOONE - The 19th-ranked Kirkwood Eagles collected only five hits Saturday and were trounced by DMACC in a conference doubleheader in Boone, 9-2 and 12-1.

Kirkwood went 5-for-50 in the twinbill for a futile batting average of .100. The Eagles (10-4, 0-2) got only three hits in the first game and two hits in the nightcap.

DMACC batters went 26-for-68 in the doubleheader for a lusty batting average of .382 in the two games.

Cale Henke and Brian Daphney were the starting pitchers for Kirkwood. Henke was touched for seven runs (three earned) in five innings in the opener. Daphney allowed seven runs (five earned) in just 1 2/3 innings in the second game.

Matt Paciello went 2-for-3 and Milton Croes had two RBIs for Kirkwood in the first game.

Kirkwood and DMACC are scheduled for another doubleheader in Boone Sunday afternoon.

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David Sweeting, who is from the Bahamas, pitched six shutout innings for Kirkwood Community College on Friday. (Photo by Margaret O'Banion)

Sweeting left Bahamas to help Eagles

Fri - 28 Mar Written by Jim Ecker

Kirkwood pitcher David Sweeting could have been back home in the Bahamas on Friday afternoon, enjoying another warm day and the beautiful blue-green waters.

"Mid-80s," he mused about the temperature where he lives in Nassau. "Clear skies, clear water. You can go out a couple of hundred feet of water and still see the bottom."

Instead, Sweeting was toiling on the mound for the Eagles on Friday with the temperature straining to reach 40 under gray skies.

He didn't seem to mind a bit.

Sweeting tossed six shutout innings as No.19 Kirkwood defeated Rochester Tech, 5-3, in the first game of a doubleheader at the Kirkwood Community College diamond in Cedar Rapids.

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Last Updated on Friday, 28 March 2014 20:29